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Glass of 

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Made right and served right. Pure, rich and 
delicious. Imitated by hunareds, but equalled 
by none. Recognized as the finest served any- 
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JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE DI- 
RECT FROM WORKSHOP 

The llaird-Ncirlh Co.. is llic largot niaii i.r.lcr limine 
in the Initcd .States, selling dianuinds, watches, jewelry 
and silverware exclusively. Their business extends as 
far as the international postal service. The building 
shown below contains 75,000 feel of floor space entirely 
devoted to lining mail orders. 

This buildinK is equipped with every convenience for 
the comfort of their hundreds of employes. Kven the 
eye strain has heen eliminated by a system of inverted 
lights wliich reflect against the white ceiling, giving tlie 
efTect of subdued sunlight. 

This business has had a wonderful growtli. .Seventeen 
years ago it was started in a small way — today the Baird 
North Co. is the undisputed leader in the mail onler 
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A million and one-half catalogs are mailed each year to 
their customers throughout the world. There isn't a 
month in the year that they do not have catalogs in 
process. 

Every piece of jewelry and silverware shown in their 
catalog is reproduced by the half-tone process from the 
actual goods. Tliey are able to save their customers 
one-third on every purchase, due to the fact that they 
sell direct to the consumer, cutting out the profits of 
ttie wholesaler and retailer. Send for our catalog ant! 
see for yourself what a large saving we can make for you 

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TN the preparation of 
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convention that would be 
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memento appropriate to 
the occasion — that would 
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Artist— Milton C. Halladay. ^ Photo- 
grapher — John R. Hess. 1| Advertis- 
ing Composition, Walter B. Norton, 
Frank C. Madden. ^ Linotype Com- 
position—Charles A. Savage, fl Presswork — 
James Sweeny, Raymond Hamilton. ^ Writ- 
ers- Josiah B. Bowditch, John F. Murphy. 
H Photo-Engravers — Lincoln Engraving Com- 
pany, Boston. 11 Contour — Percy F. Cantwell, 
Frank A. Livingston, Daniel O'Connor, 
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should know how and where they or their 
young friends can best fit themselves to earn 
more and command LARGER SALARIES. The 

way is to 

BECOME A LINOTYPE OPERATOR 

With us you get more hours a day of actual 
practice on a running Linotype, and more hours 
instruction in mechanism, under expert instruc- 
tors, than anywhere else. We want a chance to 
prove this. 

POSITIONS WAITING 

for expert operators. Best paid branch of the 
printing trade; steady work; short hours. We 
can place most of our graduates. In four days 
three of our young men, near graduation, went 
out on linotype jobs. 

Ask for booklet and information about next 
vacancy in the school. 

Employment Bureau connected, supplying 
linotype operators and other printers' help. 

NEW ENGLAND LINOTYPE 
SCHOOL 

E. N. CARVER, Manager. 
Tel. Oxford 1324 8 Dix Place, Boston, Mass. 



THEAULTta 
WIBORG CO. 

394 ATLANTIC AVE., BOSTON, MASS. 

PRINTING AND LITHO INKS 

LITHO STONES 

VARNISHES AND SUPPLIES 

BRONZE POWDERS 

TYPEWRITER RIBBONS 

CARBON PAPER 



Main Factory; Cincinnati. Branches; Bos 
ton. New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland 
Buffalo, Toronto, London, Atlanta, San Fran 
Cisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Montreal 
Paris, France; City of Mexico, Buenos Aires 
Havana, Winnipeg. 

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Ballantine 

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NEWARK, N. J. 



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Stock Co. 



OUR SPECIALTIES: UNION MADE 
PAPER AND ENVELOPES 



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Evening 

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The Evening- 
Call-Reporter 

75 Main Street 
Woonsocket, R. I. 

Covers northern Rhode Island and cen- 
tral portion of southern Massa- 
chusetts th.iroui^lily with a 

CIRCULATION OF OVER 
12,000 COPIES NIGHTLY 

THE IIOAIE NEWSPAPER in a 
piipulous territory. RATE CARDS and 
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PROVIDENCE is not a boom 
city. It has never employed 
boosters to sing its praises to 
the outside world. It has 
grown gradually and steadily 
from a hamlet to a village, 
from a village to a city, and 
from a small city to a big one. It has 
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celebrated cities of antiquity ever possessed — prob- 
ably more than Athens or Jerusalem ever had. 
Nearly a quarter million people reside within its 
corporate limits; nearly a half million make their 
homes within a ten-mile circle of its City Hall, 
and it is a trading centre for fully a million souls. 

Its inhabitants include representatives of nearly 
every race, religion and occupation under the sun. 
It includes rich and poor, millionaires and paupers. 
It has its palaces and its hovels, but on the whole 
the people of few large cities are as well-housed as 
those of Providence. There are but few apartment 
houses in the city, and the long rows of brick tene- 
ments, so conspicuous in most big cities, cannot be 
found in Providence, as its typical inhabitant de- 
mands sunlight and air in his home, and if living 
in a tenement, prefers a separate building, where 
each tenant rents the whole of a floor. 

Providence is the trading centre of an extensive 
manufacturing district. Its largest suburb, Paw- 
tucket, which joins it on the north, and which has 
a population of about 55,000, probably has a greater 
variety of manufacturers than any other city in the 
country of its size. Woonsocket, but a short trol- 
ley ride distant, has also a great variety of indus- 
tries, while, in the intervening section between it 
and Pawtucket, along the Blackstone Valley are 
many great factories and workshops in the towns of 
Cumberland and Lincoln, and the city of Central 
Falls. Only about a dozen miles from Providence, 
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jewelry-making towns of Attleboro and North 
Attleboro, and but little further away, to the east 
and southeast, are the Massachusetts industrial 
cities of Taunton and Fall River — the latter the 
largest cotton-manufacturing city in the country. 
Joining Providence on the east, is the populous 
town of East Providence, which has several large 
manufactories, and further south, on the east side 
of Narragansett Bay are the towns of Warren and 
Bristol, with large textile and rubber establish- 
ments. Joining the central city on the south is the 
city of Cranston, which has among other industrial 
concerns large manufactories of automobiles and 
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The Finest Specimen of Hand-Wrought Ironwork in the City 



ton in the Pawtuxet Valley, in the 
towns of Warwick, Coventry and 
Scituate, are more than a score of 
textile establishments which employ 
thousands of operatives. North Provi- 
dence, which joins the city on the 
north, is dotted with cotton and woolen 
factories large and small, and a few 
miles further north is the town of Bur- 
rillville, with numerous woolen manu- 
facturing concerns. In fact, nearly all 
of the other towns in the State contain 
one or more textile mills, not to men- 
tion Westerly at the southwest corner 
of the State, which, besides several 
factories, has large granite quarries. 
Many other manufacturing towns, 
ever the State line, in Massachusetts 
and Connecticut, are also tributary tD 
Providence as their trading and dis- 
tributing centre. 

But Providence is itself a great 
manufacturing city. It is the largest 
jewelry manufacturing city in the 
country, and, with Pawtucket, Crans- 
ton, Attleboro and North Attleboro — 
all within its suburban area — it may 
well be called one of the greatest jew- 
elry manufacturing centres in the 
country, if not in the world. It is be- 
lieved to contain the largest silverware 
establishment and the largest mechani- 
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The product of its workers in the 
white metal exceeds that of any State 
in the country other than Rhode 
Island. The value of its gold and sil- 
ver refining, largely the savings of the 
clippings and sweepings of its jewelry 
shops, is exceeded only by that of the 
metal refinings of New York City. It 
has the largest screw manufactory and 
the largest file manufactory in the 
world. It makes more woolen and 
worsted goods than any other Ameri- 
can city except, possibly, Lawrence. 
It is the second largest producer of 
butterine. It is also a large producer 
of cotton goods, foundry and machine- 
shop products and rubber goods, and 
is one of the leading cities in the dye- 
ing and finishing of textiles. Besides 
the leading industries here specified, it 
may be said that nearly every manu- 
factured product in textiles, iron, gold, 
silver and other metals is made in 
Providence either in a large or small 
way. 

Its prominence as a great manufac- 
turing centre makes this city the na- 
tural point to which artisans of every 
degree and calling gravitate in search 
of employment; and, as the facility for 
obtaining workmen is an important 



factor in industrial pursuits. Providence is naturally 
a desirable point for the location of new industries. 

With the exception of Boston, Providence is the 
largest city in the Eastern States north of New 
York and east of Buffalo. It is on the shortest and 
most direct line between Boston and New York, 
and all express trains going in any direction stop 
at its Union Station, even including the fast trains 
between Boston and Washington, which sidetrack 
New York. 

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trolley cars pass beyond its limits to more than 
twenty-five different terminals. It has direct con- 
nection by electric railways with such important 
cities as New Bedford, Fall River, Taunton, Brock- 
ton, Boston, Worcester, Woonsocket and Newport. 
These various steam and trolley lines make it 
quickly accessible to more than a million people, 




THE "ATHENAUM" 
Oldest Library in Providence 



and it is rapidly increasing in favor as 
a trading and recreation point. A 
large proportion of the industrial es- 
tablishments in Rhode Island and 
within the Massachusetts and Con- 
necticut portions of the Providence 
trading zone shut down at the noon 
hour on Saturdays and give their em- 
ployes a half-holiday. A large propor- 
tion of the released workers immedi- 
ately start for Providence. Incoming 
railway trains and trolley cars are 
crowded with the city-bound passen- 
gers all the afternoon and in the early 
evening, and the down-town streets, 
stores, play-houses, etc., are thronged 
with shoppers and pleasure-seekers 
until near midnight. It is doubtful if 
any street in any of our other Ameri- 
can cities, except on special occasions, 
is so densely thronged with moving 
humanity as is lower Westminster 
street on Saturday nights. Most of 
the retail stores and all places of 
amusement and recreation are open 
until a late hour, and are liberally 
patronized. The shopping district is 
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variety of electric advertising signs on 
these weekly nights. Two of the de- 
partment stores each have more than 
a thousand employes and a third has 
nearly a thousand, and one of the city's 
grocery market establishments has 
more than five hundred in its main 
store — the largest of its kind in the 
country — and its city branch stores. 
These retail places are often crowded 
to the doors on Saturday nights with 
eager shoppers.. A view of down-town 
Providence on these nights is well 
worth a visit to the city. 

The city of Providence stands at the 
head of Narragansett Bay, one of the 
handsomest and safest land-locked 
tidewaters in the world. This bay, 
which is about thirty miles long and 
three to twelve miles broad, embracing 
some 300 square miles, is practically 
land-locked. Once inside its middle or 
western passages, which are entered 
through channels 400 feet wide, a ves- 
sel is in safe waters during the most 
violent storms. This city lies at the 
head of the western arm of the bay, 
miles beyond range of projectiles from 
a hostile fleet. Providence river, so- 



called, which is really a tidal arm of the bay, is 
formed by the union of the Moshassuck and 
Woonasquatucket rivers, near the centre of the 
city. About a mile below their junction their 
waters join with those of the larger Seekonk river, 
which, rising in Massachusetts, is known as the 
Blackstone river until it reaches Pawtucket, Provi- 
dence's big northern suburb. The tri-river stream 
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tween the junction of the three rivers at 
Fox Point, and their exit* into the bay, be- 
tween Field's Point and Kittle Point, is 
called the outer harbor. 

During the Colonial times and at a later 
period before it became a settled policy of 
the Federal Government to discourage for- 
eign importations. Providence was a port 
of considerable importance. Its trading 
ships — most of them built in its own ship- 
yards — were among the fastest on the 
ocean, and traded all over the world, but 
for many years past the energies of its peo- 
ple have been largely devoted to manufac- 
turing, and its foreign commerce has 
dwindled. The wares of its great industrial 
zone have been sent to other ports for ex- 
port and its sea freightage has been mainly 
confined to the importation of raw material 
required in manufacture, to the incoming 
and outgoing of coal carriers, and to other 
coastwise barter. It has lines of steamers 
for passenger and freight service with New 
York, Philadelphia and Chesapeake ports. 
But it has hitherto been content to allow 
its best passenger steamers to discontinue 
their sailings to New York during about 
half of the year, for the benefit of other and 
inferior ports. Providence at last, however, 
is awakening from its slumbers. It is be- 
ginning to realize its possibilities as an 
ocean port and as a commanding internal 
distributing point. The National Govern- 
ment is deepening the channel below Fox 
Point to a mean low water depth of 25 feet. 
The State and city have voted large sums 
for harbor improvement. The contract has 
been awarded by the State for a quarter of 
a million dollar pier 600 feet in length on 
the west side of the harbor, and the city has 
begun the erection of a solid granite wharf, 
1470 feet in length, along its Field Point 
property. 

Ocean steamers of the Fabre Line, plying 
between New York, the Azores and Medi- 
terranean ports, selected this city as a port 
of call last year, and its steamers now touch 
here regularly about once a fortnight and 
find it a paying venture, as they usually 
take on and land more passengers here than 
they do in New York. This ocean business 



has attained such importance that the Fed- 
eral Government is about to make the pori 
a regular quarantine and immigration sta- 
tion. 

Nor is the vision of the optimistic Provi- 
dence boomer confined to the Atlantic 
Ocean. The Grand Trunk Railway, which 
is now building an extension from Palmer, 
Mass., to Providence, expects to have its 
trains running to this city the latter part 
of the present year. This will give Rhode 
Island a competing line, thus insuring it the 
lowest freight rates, and enabling our peo- 
ple to bring wheat direct from the Canadian 
northwest, without transshipment, and will 
enable our industrial establishments to send 
cur wares direct to the Orient by the Grand 
Trunk Pacific terminus. The Grand Trunk 
will run a line of steamers for passenger and 
freight service between this city and Ne.v 
York, and it is expected that it will also 
establish one cr more lines of steamers tj 
ply between Providence and European 
ports. 

Many of our manufacturing cities are 
largely dependent upon one great industry. 
We have our cotton manufacturing cities, 
our woolen manufacturing cities, our silk, 
shoe, automobile and iron manufacturing 
great towns, besides many other dependent 
in a great measure upon a single industry. 
Providence, however, has more than one 
string to its bow. It and its big suburb, 
Pawtucket, have so many diversified indus- 
tries that they are not seriously affected by 
the depression of any one of them. 

Providence is the largest jewelry manu- 
facturing city in the country. All varieties 
and grades of jewelry are produced here. 
In fact, this city may be said to be the 
pioneer town, the first in the country to 
apply machinery and power to the making 
of jewelry, and the first to establish a pro- 
cess of filling the gold with a cheaper ma- 
terial. It now has over two hundred estab- 
lishments engaged in this industry. Every 
variety of jewelry ornaments and every 
grade from pure brass to pure gold and from 
glass or paste to diamond is turned out. It 
has the distinction of having the largest and 
best equipped gold and gold-filled manufac- 
tory in the country, and its enterprising 



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makers, many of whom have risen from the 
apprentice bench, are producing jewelry for 
exportation to foreign climes as well as for 
home consumption. Many large jewelry 
blocks equipped with the latest appliances 
have been erected within recent years, and 
are well-worth visiting by sight-seers. Jew- 
elry-making has developed into a science 
and the wasteful processes formerly in 
vogue are no longer in evidence. In the 
early stages of manufacture the gold and 
silver clippings and filings were swept out 
with the dust of the floors, and many thou- 
sands of dollars were thus lost each year. 
But in 1850 the late John Austin, a Provi- 
dence jeweler, conceived the idea that 
money might be made by refining the waste. 
His success led others to engage in the 
business, and there are now nearly a dozen 
establishments that are following this in- 
dustry either in whole or in part.. The 
product of these savings amounts to sev- 
eral millions of dollars annually. 

Providence also leads the country in the 
manufacture of silverware. An apprentice 
of Nehemiah Dodge, the pioneer jewelry 
manufacturer of the country — Jabez Gor- 
ham — began the manufacture of silverware 
in Providence nearly a century ago and 
founded what is now probably the largest 
and most complete silverware manufactory 
in the world. This establishment — the Gor- 
ham Manufacturing Company — employs 
about 2000 hands, and besides making every 
grade of silverware and silver ornaments, 
produces silver and bronze statuary that at- 
tract world-wide attention. Among its 
products of this character which stand in 
Providence parks are bronze statues of 
Columbus and of Admiral Hopkins of Revo- 
lutionary fame. Among its recent produc- 
tions of this character are an equestrian 
statue of Gen. Sherman and statues of sev- 
eral of the great Confederate leaders of the 
Civil War. 

The Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing 
Company, whose plant, which covers many 
acres of area, is not far from the Union Pas- 
senger Station, is believed to be the largest 
small tool manufactory in the world. It 
was established in 1833 by David and Jo- 
seph Brown, and in 1853, when Lucius 
Sharpe became a member of the firm, em- 



ployed only fourteen persons. It now gives 
employment to more than four thousand 
men, besides about one hundred women, 
and half a hundred boys, under sixteen. 
This establishment makes the Wilcox & 
Gebb sewing machine, and its tools of many 
kinds are standard articles all over the 
world. 

Other manufactories in which Providence 
leads the country are wood screws, so- 
called, and files. The American Screw 
Company and the Nicholson File Company, 
which each employ more than a thousand 
hands are reputed to be the largest manu- 
factories cf the kind in the world. 

Providence is the largest or second larg- 
est woolen and worsted manufacturing city 
in the country. One cf its worsted factories 
employs nearly three thousand hands, an- 
other nearly two thousand, and a third more 
than a thousand. Other large woolen and 
worsted factories are located in North 
Providence, Pawtucket, Burrillville, Woon- 
socket and South Kingston. Although 
there are several cotton mills within the 
city limits, the production of cotton goods 
is more largely developed in Pawtucket, 
Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, War- 
ren, Warwick and Woonsocket. Several of 
these mills employ over a thousand opera- 
tives each. One in Pawtucket, supposed to 
be the largest thread mill in the United 
States, has about two thousand workers on 
its pay roll. Robert Knight of Providence, 
who began work when a small boy in a 
cotton mill, is supposed to be the largest 
individual cotton manufacturer in the coun- 
try, if not in the world. He has nineteen 
cotton factories — fifteen in Rhode Island 
and four in Massachusetts. One of these 
mills, at Natick, in the town of Warwick, 
is probably the largest cotton mill under one 
continuous roof in the United States. Mr. 
Knight, although now on the shady side of 
eighty, manages his own business and 
keeps track of the operation of his score cf 
mills down to the minutest details. 

Providence is largely engaged in the 
manufacture of butterine, of locomotives, cf 
rubber goods, automobiles, electrical appli- 
ances, of various foundry and machine 
products. In fact this city makes, either in 
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duced by handwork or machinery required 
by the American people. According to the 
United States census of igio this city has 
1080 manufactories, with a capital of $118,- 
512,000, employing 46,379 workers, and 
turning out products valued at $120,328,000. 

Historically Providence is one of the old- 
est towns settled by the English in the New 
World. The story of Roger Williams and 
his struggles for "soul liberty" is familiar to 
every school child in America, and need not 
be told here. He escaped deportation as an 
undesirable citizen by leaving Salem be- 
tween two days and taking to the woods. 
Thinking himself beyond reach of his per- 
secutors, he built a cabin and grubbed in 
some crops on the east side of the Seekonk 
river, in what is now the town of Cumber- 
land, this State, but which was then within 
the boundaries of the Plymouth Colony. 
The Governor of the latter, not wishing to 
olTend the Massachusetts Bay people by 
harboring a recusant, in a friendly letter 
advised Roger to cross the river. Abandon- 
ing his cabin and sprouting crops, he, with 
five companions, paddled down the Seekonk 
to State Rock, where he was greeted by 
some Indians with "What cheer, netop?" 
Posterity has discarded the netop, but 
"What Cheer" is as much in evidence in 
Providence nomenclature as is the wolf in 
Rome. History says that these six pioneers 
passed around India and Fox Point and 
paddled up the Moshassuck to a spring, but 
it is in accordance with the popular belief 
that they landed on State Rock, and what 
has been left of that rock by souvenir gath- 
erers can be now seen within a small en- 
closure on the East Side. Whether the fir^t 
landing made by the exiles was or was not 
made upon the rock is of no great conse- 
quence, but the student of history should 
be warned against the version of the inci- 
dent gotten up by some irreverent Brown 
students, who claimed that Roger on land- 
ing said "What cheer?" and that the Indians 
replied: 

"We have neither chair nor stool. 
Squat on the rock, as we do, 
You darned old fool!" 

This Brown burlesque is almost as hij- 
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old stone mill at Newport was erected by 
the Northmen. 

The founder of Providence and his fol- 
lowers purchased land of the Indians, and 
built their cabins along the line of North 
and South Main street, each man's land, as 
divided, reaching back from that road east 
to the Seekonk river. It is an interesting 
fact that many of the narrow streets and 
lanes which run east from this old town 
street were originally the foot and bridle 
paths made by the first settlers in going 
back and forth between their cabins and 
their lots. Many of the large cities in the 
West have been made to order, so to speak. 
They were planned, regularly laid out with 
broad avenues and cross streets, intersect- 
ing each other at right angles — all "blue- 
printed" — before their projected inhabitants 
started building. Not so our old New Eng- 
land towns, of which Boston and Provi- 
dence are conspicuous examples, with 
quaint old buildings and narrow and 
crooked streets certifying to their an- 
tiquity. They, like Topsy, of Uncle Tom's 
Cabin fame, were not made. They 
"growed." 

But, although an ancient city, in the 
American sense. Providence is neither de- 
crepit, nor a back number. It has spent mil- 
lions of dollars in widening and improving 
its streets ; in sewers, parks and tunnels, in 
purifying and improving its water supply 
for domestic and public use, in freeing its 
streams from sewage in improved sanitation 
and in enforcing sanitary rules, in securing 
adequate hospital service, and in various 
other ways bettering the physical and moral 
well-being of its residents. The public 
parks and playgrounds of Providence have 
been supplemented by a Metropolitan Park 
system, chartered by the State and endowed 
with extensive powers, whose object is "the 
acquirement and preservation of plans of 
public usefulness, natural beauty and his- 
toric interest" in and near to the greater city 
"for the full enjoyment of all the people for- 
ever." 

Roger Williams Park, the city's largest 
and most popular common, is a part of the 
original gift of Miantonomi to Roger Wil- 
liams. It dates from 1871, when Betsy Wil- 
liams, a lineal descendant of Rhode Island's 



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First Citizen, bequeathed her ancestral farm 
to the City for a pubUc park. Extensive ad- 
ditions have since been made, including 
"Cunliff's Pond," a chain of natural lakes, 
which cover 140 acres, and with its bays and 
inlets has a shore line of seven or eight 
miles. It is doubtful if any other city park 
in the country can afford pleasure seekers 
such an extensive motor boat or row boat 
course. These park lakes are stocked with 
fish and water fowl of various kinds, and 
fishing is permitted from boats at certain 
seasons of the year. This park contains a 
casino, with cafe and assembly hall, a na- 
tural history museum, cages of small ani- 
mals, a deer park, a number of ponies for 
children to ride or drive, and a large flock 
of Southdown sheep. The Betsy Williams 
cottage, which is now used as a resting place 
for women and children, and which contains 
many articles of historic interest, was built 
in 1773. This little red building, the Roger 
Williams monument, and a small ancient 
burial ground of the Williams family are 
near the main entrances to the park from 
Elmwood avenue. This park embraces in 
all about 432 acres. 

There are nearly two score other public 
parks within the city limits, making the 
whole park area about 650 acres. Public 
institutions control over 800 acres more, and 
there are about three and one-half miles of 
boulevards within the city, to which the 
Metropolitan Park system will eventually 
add about 36 miles of boulevards and many 
hundreds of acres of parkland, including 
lakes, hills, forests, river and bay shores. 

Besides Roger Williams Park, the city has 
several other public breathing places worthy 
of attention. Blackstone Park, in the north- 
eastern part of the city, extends along the 
Seekonk about one and one-half miles, and 
contains 45'/^ acres. Blackstone Boulevard 
extends from this park north to Hope street 
at the city line about one and three-quar- 



ter miles. It is 200 feet in width. Davis 
Park, containing 385^ acres, is a point of his- 
toric interest. Fort Independence Park at 
Feld's Point, overlooking the bay, contains 
37 acres. Neutaconkanut Park, about 405/2 
acres in extent, situated on high ground, in 
the southwest part of the city, affords a fine 
view of the city and its surroundings. The 
Dexter Training Ground, between Dexter, 
Parade, Cranston and Waterloo streets, is 
a common about nine acres in extent, which 
was donated to the then town of Providence 
in 1824, by Ebenezer Knight Dexter, for the 
training of military companies. The State 
Armory, which cost three-quarters of a mil- 
lion dollars, and which contains the largest 
hall in New England, stands at the south- 
east end of this common. It is an interest- 
ing fact that the terms of the Dexter Dona- 
tion, which includes several other portions 
of real estate besides this Training Ground 
and the Dexter Asylum, requires Provi- 
dence to hold a public town meeting once a 
year, to hear the report of the officials in 
charge, and to take such action, if any, as 
may be deemed necessary in regard to the 
management of the property. This town 
meeting is regularly warned, and is held in 
the City Hall, but, as it is considered as 
only a mere formality, very few of the city's 
freemen ever attend it. 

Providence has many other smaller parks 
and open grounds, some of which are noted 
historic points. Visitors to the city alight- 
ing at the Union Passenger Station, pass 
through a plaza — known as "Exchange 
Place" — which constitutes a public entrance 
— a reception area such as no other city in 
America can boast of. Speaking of it, a 
noted Boston architect recently said: 
"Providence has taken advantage of an op- 
portunity to create a beautiful Civic Centre 
such as any city in the world might envy, 
and it has been the first of the large cities 
to achieve results along the lines to which 



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SO much modern thought is being given. 
The city has set aside for itself land valued 
at about $3,000,000, and has converted it 
into a fine square, making it a railroad en- 
trance unsurpassed in America." Facing 
this public ground are the City Hall, which 
was built nearly forty years ago, at a cost 
of more than $1,000,000, and which is now 
too small for the city's needs; the new Fed- 
eral Building, which cost about $1,300,000; 
the Union Station, which, with approaches, 
river walls and viaduct, cost $4,400,000 ; the 
Central Fire Station building ; and, on its 
southeast front a line of business blocks, 
one of which — the Butler Exchange — cost 
nearly a million dollars. This plaza, which 
is known as "Exchange Place," contains an 
imposing Soldiers' and Sailors' monument, 
a heroic, equestrian statue of General Burn- 
side, the Bajnotti Memorial Fountain, and a 
monument of Colonel James Young are lo- 
cated on City Hall Park, which lies between 
Exchange Place and the Union Station. 
North of the station are the State Normal 
School building, which cost a half-million 
dollars, and the New State House, which 
cost about $3,200,000. This structure, one 
of the handsomest and most imposing Capi- 
tal buildings in the country, is in plain view 
of railway trains approaching the station. 
It stands on a commanding eminence over- 
looking the city. 

Strangers visiting the city will find many 
objects of great interest in this building. 
It contains a large full-length portrait of 
George Washington, painted by the cele- 
brated artist, Gilbert Stuart, in Philadelphia, 
in 1795. As President Washington gave 
him a sitting for this portrait, it may be ac- 
cepted as a correct likeness of the Father of 
His Country. King Charles Charter, grant- 
ed to the colony in 1663, which is in a good 
state of preservation, is also on exhibition. 
When Sir Edmund Andros, with his army 
of sixty British regulars came to Newport, 
in 1687, and demanded the surrender of this 



charter, Governor Walter Clarke, after a 
diligent search in the presence of the pomp- 
ous Britisher, failed to find it. He had ta'x- 
en the precaution to send it to his brother 
with instructions to hide it. Where it was 
hidden is not now known, but Rhode Island, 
as well as Connecticut, succeeded in pre- 
serving its charter, although the fact has 
been overlooked by national historians. 
Another historical relic which can be seen 
at the State House is a small frame made 
from the woodwork of the British armed 
schooner Gaspee, which was destroyed by 
Providence patriots, as she lay aground in 
Narragansett Bay, on the night of June 10, 
1772. This frame contains a copy of Gover- 
nor Wanton's proclamation, offering a re- 
ward of £100 for the arrest of the perpetra- 
tors of this "outrage." Large portraits of 
nearly all the Colonial and State Governors 
of Rhode Island hang in the corridors, on 
each side of the Senate and House Cham- 
bers of the State House. 

The old State House, on North Main 
street, a two-story structure, 40 by 70 feet, 
and which originally cost $8750, was built 
about 1763, and was used by the State until 
January, igoi. It is now used for court 
purposes. 

OTHER BUILDINGS AND HISTORIC 
POINTS. 

The three tallest buildings in Providence 
are the Industrial Trust building at the 
corner of Westminster and Exchange 
streets; the Grosvenor (formerly Banigan) 
building, at the corner of Weybosset and 
Exchange streets; and the Union Trust 
building, which stands at the corner of 
Westminster and Dorrance streets. They 
are respectively nine, ten and twelve stories 
in height. The Manufacturers' building on 
Sabin and Bevelry streets, although but 
seven stories in height, probably covers 
more ground space than any other office 
building in the city. It is mainly devoted 



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to jewelry manufacturing, and is frequently 
referred to as the largest jewelry shop 
building in the world. 

For a city of its size Providence is de- 
ficient in large first-class hotels. In the 
Narragansett and Crown hotels, however, 
it possesses two, which in size, equipment, 
cuisine and management, ranks with the 
best public houses in the country. Among 
the important educational institutions of 
the city Brown University stands first and 
foremost. It was founded in 1764, and wis 
first located at Warren, but was removed 
to Providence in 1770. During six years of 
the Revolution, most of its students being 
in the Patriot army, University Hall, now 
used as a dormitory, was used as a barrack 
and hospital by the American and French 
forces. It now has, including the five build- 
ings of the women's annex (Pembroke Col- 
lege), about 25 buildings, including de- 
tached ones. This college, although nomi- 
nally Baptist, is open to and is liberally pa- 
tronized by students of all denominations, 
from all over the world. It contains about 
a thousand students. Its library, of about 
175,000 volumes — one of the largest in the 
country — has recently been removed from 
the old library building to a splendid new 
structure erected in memory of the late 
John Hay, who was an alumnus of the uni- 
versity. The Moses Brown School, former- 
ly known as the Friends School, was started 
by the Society of Friends at Portsmouth, 
in 1794, but was soon discontmued for want 
of patronage, and was reopened at Provi- 
dence in 18 19, and has had a vigorous life. 
The State Normal School building, previ- 
ously mentioned, was dedicated in 1898. 
The Rhode Island School of Design, which 
was incorporated in 1877, but which owes 
its present importance to liberal private do- 
nations within recent years, has become a 
great aid in the industrial development of 
Southern New England. It has about a 
thousand students, and contains many rare 
works of art and of historic value. The 
Academy of the Sacred Heart is an impor- 
tant educational institution of the Catholics, 
as is La Salle Academy, on Fountain street. 
The city also contains many other impor- 
tant schools, public and private, religious 
and non-sectarian, academical, commercial 
and technical. 



Besides the Brown University library, 
previously mentioned, the most important 
ones are : The Public Library, which occu- 
pies a handsome structure, which cost 
about a half-million dollars, and which con- 
tains with its branches, about 175,000 vol- 
umes ; the Rhode Island Historical Society, 
which contains 22,000 bound volumes, 
40,000 pamphlets, and hundreds of volumes 
of manuscript, besides many rare historical 
relics; the John Carter Brown Library, be- 
gun before the Revolution, and presented 
to Brown University in 1901, and credited 
with having the best and most complete 
collection of historical data relating to 
North and South America in existence; the 
Athenaeum, an old institution, which con- 
tains about 70,000 volumes, besides many 
bound files of newspapers and other periodi- 
cals ; the Rhode Island State Library, which 
has already outgrown its extensive head- 
quarters at the State House ; the State Law 
Library in the Providence County Court 
House, and many others, including some 
large and valuable private collectoins. 

The city has many points of interest, not 
already mentioned. The Arcade, on West- 
minster street in the heart of the business 
centre, which was built in 1828, was consid- 
ered so wonderful at the time that it occu- 
pied a prominent place in the early geog- 
raphies and gazeteers. Its pillars, 22 feet 
long and three feet in diameter, and which 
were cut by hand from Rhode Island gran- 
ite, are pronounced the largest monoliths in 
America, excepting those of the Cathedral 
of St. John the Divine, in New York, N. Y. 
Among the churches, the most noticeable in 
the business section are the First Baptist 
Meeting House on North Main street, erect- 
ed in 1775, in which the Brown Commence- 
ments are always held, and whose spire is 
196 feet in height; Grace (Episcopal) 
Church on Westminster street, erected in 
1845; the Beneficent Congregational Church 
("Round Top"), on Weybosset street, built 
in 1809; and the Cathedral of SS. Peter and 
Paul (Catholic), at the junction of Weybos- 
set and Westminster streets. This cathe- 
dral, one of the largest in the country, was 
dedicated in 1886. The Old Market Hou-.e, 
now occupied by the Providence Board of 
Trade, and which, like the Old State House 
in Boston, obstructs traffic, standing as :t 



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does, in the centre of the east entrance to 
Market Square, was built in 1773. Any at- 
tempt to raze this building would cause .in 
alarming riot in this peaceful and law-abid- 
ing city. "Turk's Head," at the junction of 
Westminster and Weybosset streets, has 
been recently denuded of old colonial wood- 
en buildings to make way for a sixteen- 
story wooden block, which will probably be 
the highest extension toward the zenith al- 
lowed to Providence buildings for som^ 
years. Other buildings of historic interest 
are the old Arsenal on Benefit street ; the 
Mansion House, formerly Golden Ball Inn, 
erected in 1784 — which entertained Wash- 
ington and other historic notables — also on 
Benefit street ; the Door house on Benefit 
street, in the yard of which was Roger W'l- 
liams's grave ; the Hopkins House on Hon- 
kins street, built in 1742; the Meeting street 
school house, erected in 1768; the first brick 
house in Providence, built between 1750 
and 1760, at 537 North Main street; the 
Clarendon Hotel, built in 1775; the John 
Brown house on Power street, built in 1786, 
one of the finest colonial mansions in New 
England. Among many other points of in- 
terest to sight-seers in the city are Prospect 
Terrace, on Prospect street, from which 
commanding site a fine view of the city may 
be had ; the camping ground of the French 
troops in 1781 and 1782, between Hope and 
North Main streets; earth works on Reser- 
voir avenue, nearly opposite Mashapaug 
Pond, thrown up in the War of 1812; Fort 



Independence, erected soon after the battle 
of Bunker Hill, in 1775, between Field's 
and Sassafras Points; Gaspee Point, where 
the Gaspee affair occurred in 1772; Roger 
Williams's grave, corner of Benefit and 
Bowen streets; Roger Williams ("Slate 
Rock") Rock, on a square bounded by Wil- 
liams, Power, Gano and Roger streets ; and 
Roger Williams Spring, at northwest cor- 
ner of North Main street — No. 244 — and 
Almo lane. 

Outside of Providence proper, within a 
short trolley ride of the city, are many other 
points of interest. 

Both sides of Narragansett Bay are 
dotted with shore resorts, many of them 
having fine bathing beaches, and all of them 
serving Rhode Island's favorite bivalvular 
feast — a clam dinner. Visitors should un- 
derstand that no true Rhode Islander be- 
lieves that anyone but a Rhode Island 
native is able to produce a genuine clam 
dinner. These resorts, of which Crescent 
Park and Rocky Point are the headliners, 
can be reached by boat or trolley. Steamers 
leave the city wharves during the season 
half-hourly. 

Rhode Island's world-renowned shore re- 
sorts, Newport and Narragansett Pier, can 
also be reached by steamer, or by steam or 
electric railways. Steamers also run daily 
from Providence to Block Island, which is 
several miles "out at sea," and which is also 
a favorite summer resort, and which adds 
sword-fishing to its many other attractions. 




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PROVIDENCE HAT COMPANY 

HATS MADE TO ORDER 

Union Made Hand Made Home Product 

482 WESTMINSTER ST. 



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BLAIR SHOE REPAIR FACTORY 

David Blair, Proprietor 
108 Eddy St. Providence, R. I. 

ATCHESON & ROYCE 

Auto Tire Repairers 

44 ABORN STREET 



H. J. SULLIVAN 

Billiard, Pool Tables and Supplies 

Bowling Alley Supplies 

Room 4, 21 Washington St., Providence, R. I. 



THE CAPITOL PRINTING CO. 

Printing of the Better Kind 

95 Westminster St., Providence, R. I. 

Telephone Union 468S-R. 



CARL ROBB PRINTING COMPANY 

26 FOUNTAIN ST. 
Providence, R. I. 

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Compliments of 

ALPINE PRINTING COMPANY 

299 Weybosset St. 

Telephone Union 2182. 



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MAKERS OF "DONAHUE'S INFANTRY 
PUNCH" 

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF NARRAGANSETT 

PURE RYE WHISKEY; MOOR RYE 

WHISKEY 

AGENTS FOR HAMPDEN ALE AND GOLD 
MEDAL TIVOLI BEER 

117, 119 Dyer Street, 34, 36 Hay Street 
Telephone 3t;io Union 



COMPLIMENTS OF 

JOSEPH SCHEDLEY 
CAFE 

197 AND 199 UNION ST. 
Providence 



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HIS magnificent building ad- 

C joins Col. Colt's home, "Lin- 
den Place," and was erected 
by Col. Samuel Pomeroy 
Colt in memory of his 
mother, Theodora De Wolf 
Colt. The cornerstone was 
laid on October i6, 1906, by the Grand 
Lodge of Masons of Rhode Island. 
The building was opened for public in- 
structions on Monday, April 12, 1909. 
Interesting exercises were held at that 
time, at which were gathered promi- 
nent educators and citizens from New 
England and elsewhere. School ses- 
sions commenced on the day following. 
The building is of white Georgia 
marble, similar to that used in the 
State House at Providence. The main 
building has a frontage of 84 feet on 
Hope street and 69 feet on Bradford 
street. The structure is two and one- 



half stories high with a deep basement. 
On the first floor are two class rooms, 
two recitation rooms and a lavoratory. 
On the second floor are two more class 
rooms and a large library. In the rear 
of the main building is an ell which is 
used as an assembly room, with an en- 
trance to the gallery from the second 
floor of the main building. The as- 
sembly room is used for entertain- 
ments, lectures, etc., and is lighted by 
a handsome skylight. On the third 
floor is a chemical laboratory, teachers' 
room and store room. Manual train- 
ing rooms are located in the basement. 
The interior of the building is finished 
in an artistic manner and the furnish- 
ings are of the best. The architects 
were Cooper and Bailey of Boston and 
the construction work was done by 
Norcross Brothers of Worcester and 
Providence. 



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Compliments of 

WASHINGTON PARK WET WASH 
LAUNDRY 

290 Chapman St. 



HOTEL PERRIN 

HALTON & EVANS, Proprietors 

161, 163, 165 Washington St., Providence, R. I. 

Sample Room Connected. European and Ameri- 
can Plan, Good Service, Low Rates. 

Telephones, Union 517, 9483 

R. Sweatman, H. E. Pierce, Clerks 



ASTOR LUNCH 

FORMERLY FRASER'S RESTAURANT 

102 Westminster St. Providence, R. I. 



JOHN L DEVLIN 

Attorney -at-Law 

10 Weybosset St. Providence, R. I. 



Compliments of 

HERMAN CUTLER 

CIGAR MANUFACTURER 
549 Westminster Street 



HAVEN BROS." RESTAURANTS 

Union Station and 91 Eddy Street 

Providence, R. I. 



BELMONT LUNCH COMPANY 
203 Union St., Near Crown Hotel 

Branches: 271 Weybosset St., Colonial Lunch, 
70 Dorrance St. 



Compliments of 

HOTEL DORRANCE 



WOODS ART STORE 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

PICTURE FRAMES AND FINE ART GOODS 

141 Mathewson St., Providence, R. I. 



Compliments of 

WALDORF AND MARYLAND CLUB 

LUNCHES 



Compliments of 

WILLIAM H. TRIMBLE 

WINE ROOM 
49 Dyer St. 



Compliments of 

JOHN SCHEMINGER, JR. 

THE EDDY & FISHER CO. 

WINE MERCHANTS 

27-31 Pine St. Providence, R. I. 



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A FRIEND 


COMPLIMENTS OF 

KEITH'S 
THEATRE 


ERSKINE & 
MORRISON 

ELECTROTYPERS 
9 Callender Street, Providence, R. I. 

ELECTROTYPING IN ALL ITS 
BRANCHES 

Telephone Union 974 


R. A. HURLEY 

102 Grosvenor Building 

SELLS 

REAL ESTATE 


C. W. PATT 8r SON 

MARKET GARDENERS 

Wholesale Dealers in 
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 

Office: AUBURN, R, I., Store: 64 SO. WATER ST. 
Providence. R. I. 



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BREWING CO. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

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George M. Webb Phone, Union 650R 

IDEAL PRINTING COMPANY 

PRINTERS 
Fine Commercial Work, Advertising Novelties 

and Coupon Tickets 
4.", Eddy St. Providence, R. I. 



Opposite Union Station. Tel. Conn. 

J. ERNEST HAMMOND 

PRINTERS' MATERIAL 

Machinery, Cabinets, Type, Inks, Bronzes, Etc. 

The Highest Grade of Printers' Goods 
.0 Exchange Place Providence, R. I. 

Only Independent Supply House in New England 



Compliments of 




JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS 
Established 1S7G 



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Samuel Stephens 

174 FORT HILL SQUARE 
High and Batterymarch Sts. 

Phone: Main 29 BOSTON Cable :Wicqouin 

PRINTING PRESSES, PAPER CUTTERS, 

WOOD SUPPLIES, LOCKING DEVICES, 

TYPE, RULE, INKS 

And General Machinery and Materials 

PRESSES. CUTTERS AND STITCHERS IN OPERA- 
TION SHOWN RUNNING BY INDIVIDUAL 
MOTOR POWER 



Compliments of 
CROWN HOTEL BARBER SHOP 

ANDREW T. McNAMARA, Proprietor 



OXFORD LINOTYPE PRESS 

PRINTERS 
26 Custom House St. Providence, R. I. 



E. T. ARNOLD 

Dealer in and Repairer of 

WATCHES. CLOCKS, JEWELRY AND 

OPTICAL GOODS 

DIAMONDS 

37 Dorrance St. Providence, R. I. 



FRANK P. MAGUIRE 
Licensed Electrical Contractor 

ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION and REPAIRS 

Electrical Decorations — Everything in 

Electrical Work — Estimates Furnished 

91 ABORN ST.. PROVIDENCE. Tel. Union 1476 



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THE NEW ENGLAND 
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION 

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DURING the first week of Septem- 
ber, 1910, a call was sent out by 
Boston Typographical Union to 
all sister unions in New England 
asking that representatives be 
sent to a conference to be held 
in Boston on Sunday, September 
25, 1910. The object of this meeting was 
to find out the sentiment in regard to the 
advisability of forming a district organiza- 
tion which would comprise the territory 
covered by the six New England States. 
Fifteen typographical, two mailers and one 
newswriters' unions were represented at 
the meeting. After listening to a general 
discussion by the delegates it was the unani- 
mous opinion that the time was ripe to take 
a decided step forward and launch a district 
organization to be known as the New Eng- 
land Typographical Union. But in order 
to properly carry on the work of an organi- 
zation of this kind it is necessary to have a 
constitution. This was an obstacle which 
but few of the delegates had figured on 
meeting. To draft a constitution, present 
it, and have it adopted in the few hours the 
conference had to spare, was some feat to 
accomplish. Charles Carroll, who repre- 
sented Providence at the meeting, volun- 
teered his services and undertook the task 
of writing the constitution. At the evening 
session of the conference Mr. Carroll pre- 
sented for the consideration of the delegates 
practically what is now the constitution of 
the N. E. T. U. Thus, with a constitution 
and a set of permanent officers the New 
England Typographical Union set out to 
accomplish what is contained in the first 
article of the constitution: "Its objects 
shall be promotion of all movements for the 
improvement of conditions of employment 
of Union printers, and the organization and 
strengthening of subordinate Unions of the 
International Union ; organization work 



among printers so situated as to render 
affiliation with subordinate Unions incon- 
venient, active work for extending recogni- 
tion and use of all Union labels, and par- 
ticularly the Union labels of the printing 
trades; an earnest endeavor to secure and 
promote publicity of the proper sort for 
Union endeavors and purposes ; and in gen- 
eral, active co-operation with the officers of 
the International Typographical Union in 
carrying out the policies of the Interna- 
tional Typographical Union." 

To successfully carry out the program as 
outlined by the officers it was necessary to 
procure some revenue, this to be obtained 
by requesting local unions to become 
affiliated with the district organization and 
pay therein a per capita of 10 cents per 
member per year. 

Waterbury union has the honor of being 
the first union to become affiliated, and the 
writer of this article was the member who 
introduced the motion that eventually 
started the general movement that had for 
its object the enrollment of all the unions 
in the six New England States into the 
New England Typographical Union. 

The New England Union is a delegate 
organization, legislative authority belong- 
ing exclusively to the annual convention 
of delegates. Between conventions the ad- 
ministration of the affairs of the organiza- 
tion is entrusted to an executive board, 
consisting of the president, first vice-presi- 
dent and the secretary-treasurer. 

In order to stimulate interest a Publicity 
Bureau was inaugurated which furnishes 
items of interest to the labor press in the 
district. The local secretaries gather items 
in their localities and forward same to the 
district secretary, who in turn publishes the 



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dium of the trade journals. 

Next in line is the Information Bureau, 
which is a very valuable asset to the sev- 
eral departments maintained by the New 
England Union. The executive board has 
been able to collect a vast amount of data 
bearing on the printing business, which is 
of much benefit to the organization, espe- 
cially in cases where information is desired 
that could not be procured in some in- 
stances for weeks, whereas it can now be 
obtained, and is often sent in return mail 
after a request is received. 

The best feature in connection with the 
work of the New England Typographical 
Union is the establishing of an Employment 
Bureau, which has proven a success from 
the start. In its report to the Lawrence 
convention the executive board recom- 
mended the establishing of an Employment 
Bureau. The convention approved the idea, 
and left the executive board to work out 
some definite plan. On February i, igii, 
persuant to the instructions of the Law- 
rence convention, the executive board an- 
nounced the inauguration of an Employ- 
ment Bureau, with headquarters at the office 
cf the district secretary. For the purpose oi 
carrying out the work of the bureau, secre- 
taries of local unions make out monthly 
reports on blanks furnished by the district 
secretary, on the first day of each month, 



on the condition of trade in their several 
localities, and file the same with the district 
secretary, who on the fifth day of each 
month issues a synopsis of these reports in 
printed form for the information of mem- 
bers. These reports are of much value to 
the seeker of work, for they indicate where 
work may be obtained and cities to be 
avoided. Members who desire to enroll in 
the Employment Bureau obtain application 
cards either through the local or district 
secretary. The blanks are carefully filled 
out and returned, together with five self- 
addressed postals or scamped envelopes. 
The applicant is then enrolled and the pos- 
tals are used to notify him of the oppor- 
tunities for employment. Thus the only 
cost to the applicant is the amount ex- 
pended on stationery. The bureau in its 
short existence has been instrumental in 
securing work, both temporary and perma- 
nent, for over a hundred of its applicants. 

As the space allotted me for this article 
has been taken up in briefly pointing out 
the most prominent features of the New 
England Typographical Union, it is impos- 
sible to explain some of the other minor 
features that are being developed, but 
which will mature in all probability, at the 
Providence convention. 

The New England Typographical Union 
stands today as the most perfectly organ- 
ized district organization in the country. 




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BREWED BY 



THE 



James Hanley 
Brewing Co. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

Brewers of Ale and 
Porter Exclusively 



TAFT'S HOTEL 

66-67 Exchange Place 

Providence, R. I. 



Compliments of 

JOHN THE SHOEMAN 



Tel. Union 5614-W I. LAZARUS, Prop 

WASHINGTON TAILORS 

CUSTOM TAILORING 

Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing at 

Sliort Notice 

;r Washington St. Providence. R. I 



COMPLIMENTS OF 

Democratic 
State Central 
Committee 



Jewelers' Inn 




61 SABIN STREET 
Providence. R. I. 



Our Specialties: Mt. Ver- 
non. Chicken Cock 
Golden Wedding 
Whiskies 

'GANSETT LAGER 
HANLEY'S PEERLESS 



THOMAS J. NELEN 

Proprietor CLERK— JOHN ROBERTS 



INDUSTRIAL PRINTING CO. 

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PRINTERS 
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SENATE CAFE 
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as Desii2ncrs ami Manulacturcrs of 

TYPE 

liorders. OrnaiiK'nts, Bi;),ss 
Rvile.s. Leacl.s, blvij^s, Metul 
rvirniture, Labor-.savTnjJ De- 
\ice,s and EvorytluntS for tlic- 
Equipment of the Printfiliop. 

In jjlacing yovir orders with 
tins roundry you are assured 
<if bujienor Quality, Proiiifit 
oerv'ice. Oovirteovis Treat- 
ment and Sqviare Dealing. 

Indefjendent Tyfit' Founclr>-. Kst'd 1872 

THE H. C. HANSEN 
TYPE FOUNDRY 

190-192 Con}2ress Street. Boston 

535 Pearl Street. New York 



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MANUFACTURING 
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FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE: 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



BRANCH OFFICES: 

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31 North State St., Chicago, lli. 

424 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. 

62 Hatton Garden, London, England 
Casilla No. 659, Buenos Aires, Argentina 



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La Tribune 
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS 



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THE INTERNATIONAL 
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION 



By James M. Lynch 





HE International Typographical 

C Union for over fifty years has 
endeavored to impart dignity to 
the craft by assisting in the main- 
tenance of the just and equitable 
rights of the individual craftsman 
and cementing the bonds of 
friendship and brotherhood that should 
exist between all men, and especially those 
of a distinctive craft. So 
beneficial has the union 
been that we are desirous 
of extending its influence, 
for in proportion to the 
intelligence, unity and 
numerical strength of his 
organization does the 
wage-earner find, through 
higher wages, shorter 
hours and healthier con- 
ditions of labor, a taste of 
the advantages so fully 
secured by the superior 
intelligence and unity of 
the employing class. 

These are the days of 
combination. Physicians 
have their medical asso- 
ciation to regulate fees; 
the legal fraternity unite 
on all matters of common 
interest in the various 
bar associations ; the pow- 
erful financial institutions of the country 
find it necessary to combine in the National 
Bankers' Association to accomplish their 
ends ; the merchants and manufacturers at- 
tain the object of their desires through 
Boards of Trade— then, why should not the 
printers have an association in every city 
and town on this continent? The book and 
job employers are organized in several 
associations, which embrace all the larger 
cities, and in towns where their influence 




JAMES M 

President Internal 

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does not extend the employers are few in 
number, and can be readily brought to- 
gether. They can determine on a line of 
policy at a dinner, which is not possible 
among the workers owing to their greater 
number. Then there is the American News- 
paper Publishers' Association, comprising 
nearly all the great newspapers of the coun- 
try, and which, in the arbitration agreement, 
negotiated with the In- 
ternational Typographical 
Union, recognizes the 
strength and potency of 
our great labor union. 

There are typograph- 
ical unions in more than 
700 cities and towns in 
the United States and 
Canada. The aims and 
objects of these organiza- 
tions may be stated brief- 
ly as follows: 

To elevate the position 
and maintain and protect 
the interests of the craft 
in general. 

To establish and up- 
hold a fair and equitable 
rate of wages, and to 
regulate all trade matters 
appertaining to the wel- 
fare of members. 

To influence the ap- 
prenticeship system in the direction of in- 
telligence, competency and skill, in the in- 
terest alike of employer and employe. 

To endeavor to replace strikes and their 
attendant bitterness and pecuniary loss by 
arbitration and conciliation in the settle- 
ment of all disputes concerning wages and 
conditions of employment. 

To relieve the deserving needy, and pro- 
vide for the proper burial of deceased mem- 
bers. 



LYNCH 
ional Typograph- 
nion. 



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UNIONISTS 

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ORDER IN 

LABEL 

SHOPS 




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FOR 

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Styles— Best Values 



CATHOLIC CEMETERIES 

ST. PATRICK'S, PROVIDENCE 

ST. FRANCIS' PA.WTUCKET 

ST. ANN'S, CRANSTON 

Orders for Foundations for Monu- 
ments, Improvements, annual and per- 
petual care of lots, graves, etc., re- 
ceived and recorded at this office. Un- 
sightly features removed from lots or 
graves without notice. Digging, re- 
moving turf, or otherwise changing the 
graded surface of any of the Ceme- 
teries prohibited under the penalty of 
expulsion from the grounds. 

All business attenrled to at the ofBce: Room 5. Tier- 
ney Building. 524 Westminster street. Providence. R. I. 
8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p, m. daily e.vcept Sundays. 



Dr. Wiley on Bread 

"Measured by actual nutritive power there is 
no other complete ration which in economy 
can compare with bread." 

EAT BREAD MADE WITH 
FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST 

Write for Recipe Book . . . FREE 

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The Rhode Island Workmen's 
Compensation Act 



HKN the Beeckman Workmen's 

W Compensation act passed the 
General Assembly a few weeks 
ago and Gov. Aram J. Pothier 
affixed liis signature to it and 
made the bill a law, one of the 
most beneficent and important 
acts for wage-earners, no matter 
what their employment may be, was a real- 
ity. 

The Compensation act was the work of 
Senator R. Livingston Beeckman of New- 
port. It is regarded, 
by wage-earners, labor 
leaders and employers 
of labor alike, as being 
as near the perfect act 
of the sort as there is 
in operation anywhere 
Senator Beeckman 
made up his mind two 
years ago that Rhode 
Island was in need of 
such an act. He has 
given the matter con- 
siderable attention and 
study and had come to 
the conclusion that 
(here must be a better 
and more e.xpeditious 
means of settling ac- 
lions, brought by per- 
sons injured at their 
employment, than to 
recourse to lengthy and 
costly litigation. .-V 
study of the subject 
convinced the Newport 
Senator that in law 
suits of this kind the 
greater part of the 
money went to lawyers. 
Senator Beeckman 
engaged a leading firm 

of lawyers to draft a bill covering the sub- 
ject and paid for this work out of his own 
private funds. This alone saved the State 
many hundred dollars which ordinarily it 
wouid have to pay in the appointment of a 
commission to study the subject. 

The Newport Senator lost no time and 
his Compensation act was the first bill in- 
troduced in the Senate at the last session. 
It was Senate Bill No. 1. 

The Senator, however, did not push the 
bill through without consulting the persons 
most vitally interested— the workingmen 
themselves. He was of the opinion that so 
long as it was the ordinary workingman who 
was to be affected by the measure that the 
workingman must first see the bill. So, 
when the act was drafted the Senator in- 




HON. R. LIVINGSTON BEECKMAN 



vited a number of the most prominent labor 
union leaders in the State to inspect and 
criticise his bill. 

Representatives of the different labor 
bodies read the bill carefully. They found 
that it abolished the defense, that employers 
had previously made, of contributory negli- 
gence, fellow servant doctrine and assumed 
risk, and that it went a long way toward 
the injured workman saving lawyers' fees 
and getting a quick and generous compensa- 
tion for injuries received. 

The employers, too, read the act, and 
some of the largest approved of it. The 
Senator thereupon in- 
troduced the bill and 
fought it through both 
branches of the flen- 
eral Assembly. He 
proved himself a friend 
of the wage-earner in 
this matter by not 
sparing an effort to 
have it passed. He 
made no great display 
about his act but 
fought doggedly unlil 
he won. 

It was an act which 
he did of his own ac- 
cord and out of a gen- 
erous feeling for the 
working people. 

When the act finally 
passed and became a 
law a number of labor 
leaders, realizing that 
Senator Beeckman had 
brought about a re- 
form that labor unions 
and working people 
generally had been 
fighting for for years, 
declared the Beeckman 
Workmen's Compensa- 
tion act to be the most 
important measure of the 1912 session or 
for any session for years past. 

The pen, with which Gov. Pothier signed 
the Beeckman bill, was a solid gold one 
made especially for the purpose. The bill 
was signed with this in the presence of a 
large number of labor leaders and later the 
pen, with a suitable inscription, was pre- 
sented by the labor leaders to Senator 
Beeckman. 

The pen now occupies a prominent place 
in Senator Beeckman's study. It is prized 
by him as one of his most precious sou- 
venirs, for it is the expression of the grati- 
tude and esteem that working people, men 
women and children, all over the Slate 
cherish for the man who made the Beeck- 
man Workmen's Compensation act a law. 



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